1. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
Progetto Taste of
Freedom
Presso la Casa di
Reclusione di Porto
Azzurro – Isola d’Elba
Maggio 2014 –
Settembre 2014
3° Meeting – Turkey –
Settembre 2104

2. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
From May to August: We made 8 meeting
with inn-mates of Porto Azzurro.
We have also to work with their
educators to decide how to continue our
project.
The difficult was: where can we cook our
recipes with the inmates???

3. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
1st meeting: 30 May 2014
Meeting with the educational team of "Taste Of
Freedom" for the development of the programme
concerning the future activity that will take place in
the Prison, regarding the possibility of the use of the
Jail's kitchen; we were told that it will be difficult
the use of it. So, the idea is that the Inn-mate
should cook in their cell and bring the food to the
school-room where it will be tasted by all of us.

4. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
2nd meeting: 9 June 2014
A number of association were
invited to a Conference, to see the
works, and programms done by
the various associations. The
works done by the prisoner where
in display some very interesting ,
like the "Suit-case of Napoleon”.
We also had the possibility to try
bread and cakes made in the new
bakery of the Prison and to talk
about the programme " Taste of
freedom."

5. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
3rd meeting: 12 June 2014
Meeting with the Prisoner,
tasting some local Pastry, that
we brought to them,
discussing the origin of the old
recipe, we had a good time
the Inn-mate are quite happy
and interested, on our next
meeting of the 26 of june they
will bring some Pastry of their
place of origin, made by them
in their Cell.

6. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
4th meeting: 26 June 2014
After the tasting of the Pastry made by the
Prisoner, we asked theme to write the menù for the
17 of July. We will have to make the list of the
ingredients necessary for the Menù. With the help
of the Educational Team we will bring in the
ingredient for the event that will be taking place at
our next meeting in the class-room.

7. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
5th meeting: 3 July 2014
The menù for the 17 of july is ready; we will split
the prisoner in 3 Groups. Each group will
prepared some dishes; so that at the end we will
have 3 different Menùs, it will be very
interesting to see how they will manage to cook
so many difficult dishes with very little cooking
equipment.

8. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
6th meeting: 17 july 2014
Is really fantastic what they have
manage to prepare, in their cell ,in a
very difficult situation, here are the
decoration for the table.
They prepare Neapolitan Bread (made
with animal fat) olive, anchovies, etc (for
the muslims prisoners a special version
of bread was made without animal fat).

9. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
Menù n° 1: Pasta with Broccoli and anchovies; Cannoli alla siciliana, Baci di dama

10. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
Menù n° 2: Lasagne alla Bolognese, Lamb albanian style with vegetables, Cannoli Siciliani

11. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
Menù n°3: Insalata di tonnina salad with Pachino tomatoes, Onion, Aromatic bread, Strawberry’s cake with cream

15. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
7° meeting: 7 August 2014
We had a very important meeting with the
prisoners discussing their meals, the
problem of not having a common place
where to eat, most of the time when they
get the food is cold and overcooked (Pasta)
We also discussed the last idea for Logo
"Taste of freedom"

16. Cooperativa Beniamino &
Slow Food Elba e Capraia
8th meeting: 14 August 2014
The new " Logo" is ready it was given to
us. It is the work of a group of them.
We asked the inn-mate to write a new
menu for our next visit, once we have the
menù we will decide the date for the next
event. There is a lot of expectation for the
next gastronomic experience.
I am sure it will be as good as the first
one.
In the Autumn we hope to make a “true”
lunch with the inn-mate at “Enoteca delle
Fortezze”, in Portoferraio.